Ubu Roi, ou "Les Polonais" : drame en cinq actes d'Alfred Jarry
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Ubu Roi, ou "Les Polonais" : drame en cinq actes d'Alfred Jarry
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003
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Drame en cinq actes d'Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry
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Cast: Jean Bouise, Rosy Varte, Hubert Deschamps, Henri Virlojeux, Didier Haudépin, Micha Bayard, Armand Meffre, Johnny Monteilhet, David Gafsou, Bernard Musson, Jocelyn Ganoën, Denis Palos, Gabriel Jabbour, Fernand Berset, Michel Muller, Abdel Hakmi, Michel Robiolles, Claude Cernay, Robert Lauret, Bernard Cara
Credits: Partition originale [original music-1896], Claude Terrasse ; arrangement originale et direction musicale, Jean-Claude Pelletier ; directeur de la photographie, Lucien Billard ; montage, Marc Pavaux ; effets spéciaux électroniques, Max Debrenne; choréographie, Dirk Sanders; ymageries animations et collaboration artistique, Roger Dauvillier ; decors et costumes, Jean-Jacques Faury ; ingénieur de la vision, Maurice Charier
Originally produced for French television in 1965, copyright 1975
Summary: Ubu Roi is one of the precursors to the Theatre of the Absurd and the greater surrealist art movement of the early twentieth century. Begun as a schoolboy satire of an unpopular teacher, the plot is a parody of various Shakespearean themes, with Ubu the anti-protagonist at the center of this bit of anti-theater. The play performs an assault on language, wherein slang is mixed with fake archaisms, and literary vocabulary and diction--wildly incorrect--alternate with vulgar language to satirize the complacent bourgeois, their absurd practices, and the abuse of authority engendered by success. After rioting during the first (and final) performance in 1896, Ubu Roi was outlawed from the French stage
